Carwash Proposal Is Rejected By Panel

BUFFALO GROVE — The Plan Commission has rejected the petition by Mobil Oil Corp. for a public hearing to present plans to build a Mobil gas station and adjacent carwash.

Vitas Maciukevicius, consulting engineer for Schaumburg-based W-T Engineering Inc., requested that the Mobil gas station at 1248 McHenry Rd. be rebuilt with an upgraded commercial mart and separate carwash.

Plan Commission members were concerned that noise from the car wash would bother residents of the Spoerlein Farms residential area that lies just north of the Mobil station.

According to Robert Pfeil, Buffalo Grove's village planner, the methodology of the noise emission study did not meet the village standards. Pfeil suggested that the noise from the drying mechanism could upset neighbors.